Florence or Zoe

Zoe is the more popular girl name in Canada, #21 to #28 in 2024. Florence ranks #5 among girl names in England and Wales for 2025, while Zoe does not make that list. Zoe is the more popular girl name in the USA, #29 to #435 in 2024. The two countries disagree on which is ahead.

Place by place

Each place ranks its own registered births, so the two names are compared inside one list at a time, in that place's most recent complete year.

Where each place ranks Florence against Zoe, in that place's most recent complete year.FlorenceZoe#1#100#250#500Canada#28 → #21 ↑7USA#435 → #29 ↑406Alberta#190 → #84 ↑106British Columbia#152 → #47 ↑105Ontario#178 → #46 ↑132Quebec#3 → #17 ↓14

Places that rank only one of the two names, or rank either outside the top 1,000, are listed below but not plotted.

PlaceYear Florence Zoe Ahead
Canada2024#28#21Zoe
England and Wales2025#5unrankedFlorence
USA2024#435#29Zoe
Alberta2024#190#84Zoe
British Columbia2024#152#47Zoe
Ontario2024#178#46Zoe
Quebec2024#3#17Florence

Florence and Zoe in Canada, 2020–2024

Florence climbed from #41 in 2020 to #28 in 2024 in Canada. Zoe slipped from #12 in 2020 to #21 in 2024 in Canada.

Florence and Zoe ranked by year in Canada, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#21 Zoe#28 Florence20202021202220232024

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Florence and Zoe in England and Wales, 2020–2025

Florence climbed from #14 in 2020 to #5 in 2025 in England and Wales. Zoe reached #99 in 2024 in England and Wales.

Florence and Zoe ranked by year in England and Wales, 2020 to 2025.#1#50#100#5 Florence#99 Zoe202020212022202320242025

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Florence and Zoe in the USA, 2020–2024

Florence climbed from #763 in 2020 to #435 in 2024 in the USA. Zoe climbed from #40 in 2020 to #29 in 2024 in the USA.

Florence and Zoe ranked by year in USA, 2020 to 2024.#1#500#1000#29 Zoe#435 Florence20202021202220232024

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Other comparisons

How this comparison is built

Both names are ranked by how many babies were registered with that exact spelling, so every position here counts real births rather than votes or searches. Rank is the only measure every source publishes, so it is what the charts plot; birth counts are not released for every place.

A place appears only in the years it published a complete list, which is why a name can be missing from a year it was almost certainly given to some babies. See every head-to-head on the site, or the ranked lists these names come from.